Community Culture Camp: Nurturing belonging and creativity on Treaty 6 territory
The week invited our community to share in the good life together — rooted in culture, connection and community.
The week invited our community to share in the good life together — rooted in culture, connection and community.
Kharla Acosta, executive director of iEmergence Philippines, shares what she learned while travelling through North America this summer for the 2025 NAIITS symposium in Toronto.
This year, our journey at camp took us into the Grandfather Teaching of honesty, guided by the Sabe, also known as Bigfoot.
“Matolos no Ingod” (“Great Nation”) draws inspiration from the ancestral lands of the Ata community in Davao City, Philippines.
A special highlight of Kids Camp was the joint celebration of Treaty Day with the rest of the community that was full of laughter, games and food.
"One of the biggest shifts that we need to make in society is how we look at each other and how we appreciate the differences of the other and recognize the similarities as places to build from," said Matt, who co-founded iEmergence in 2008 with Larissa Minniecon and Hannah Chapman.
"The work of iEmergence is building that pathway of knowing, of learning and of redeeming one's culture and God-given identity," said Kharla Acosta, executive director of iEmergence Philippines, of her time spent at the 2023 NAIITS symposium in Winnipeg.